STRONGS NUMBER H101


Word Summary
aggan: a bowl, basin
Original Word: אַגָּן
Transliteration: aggan
Phonetic Spelling: (ag-gawn')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: a bowl, basin
Meaning: a bowl, basin
Strong's Concordance
basin, cup, goblet

Probably from nagan; a bowl (as pounded out hollow) -- basin, cup, goblet.

see HEBREW nagan

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H101. aggan

[אַגָּן‎] noun [masculine] bowl, basin (Talmud אוֺגָן‎, Aramaic אַגָּנָא‎, ; Arabic , vessel in which clothes are washed; Assyrian (plural) aganât¢ DlW).

1 basins used in ritual אֲגָנֹתExodus 24:6 (E).

2 הַסַּהַר אַגַּן‎, simile of curves of body Cant 7:3.

3 metaphor of family of Eliakim. הָאַגָּנוֺת כְּלֵי‎ = basin-vessels Isaiah 22:24 (= bowl-shaped vessels Che) opposed to הַנְּכָלִים כְּלֵי‎; both "" הַקָּטָן כְּלֵי‎.

אגף‎ (Assyrian stem of agappu, wing, compare DlW).